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The conference venue is the Union Building (UNB) on the University of Texas campus, at the corner of 24th and Guadalupe (2247 Guadalupe; Phone:(512)-475-6636).

  • Talks, poster sessions, and coffee breaks will be held in the Santa Rita Room.
  • Buffet lunch will be served in the adjacent Quadrangle Room

In order to allow discussion, we request that speakers adhere to the alloted time:

  • Invited talks = 20 min. oral presentation + 10 min. discussion = 30 min.
  • Contributed talks (C) = 12 min. oral presentation + 3 min. discussion= 15 min.
DAY 1 (TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11)
8.00-9.00
Registration + Poster Setup
(Session 1) Overview: Galaxy Assembly in LCDM Cosmogonies: Mergers, Secular Modes, Cold Streams
Morning Chair (9.00-12.30): Julio Navarro
9.00-9.15
Dean Mary Ann Rankin & Chair Neal Evans: Welcome
9.15-9.40
Shardha Jogee: Opening Remarks/Conference Overview
9.40-10.10
Andreas Burkert: Challenges of modeling galactic disks
10.10-10.40
Romeel Dave: Galaxy Growth: Mergers, Accretion, and Feedback
10.40-11.00
Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
11.00-11.30
Andrey Kravtsov: Substructure problem: star formation in dwarf galaxies.
11.30-12.00
Piero Madau: Missing satellite problem
12.00-12.30
George Rhee: Kinematics of LSB & Dwarfs: Implications for LCDM models
12.30-2.00
Buffet Lunch + Poster viewing
Afternoon Chair (2.00-5.30): Marc Balcells
2.00-2.30
Isaac Shlosman: Growing disks inside assembling dark matter halos
2.30-3.00
Francoise Combes: Secular evolution and assembly of bulges
3.00-3.30
Kelly Foyle: Measuring the mean secular evolution rate in present-day spirals
3.30-4.00
Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
4.00-4.30
Avishai Dekel: Early massive galaxy formation by cold streams
4.30-4.45 (C)
Irina Marinova: Local Barred Disks in the Field and Dense Environments: Implications for Galaxy Evolution
4.45-5.00 (C)
David Fisher: Characterization of pseudobulges and their star formation
5.15-7.15
Welcome Reception in Quadrangle Room (hors d'oeuvres + drinks)
7.30
Shuttles drop off participants at downtown hotels (Radisson and Extended Stay)
DAY 2 (WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12)
(Session 2) Disk/Bulge Assembly, Star Formation, and Merger History
Morning Chair (9.00-12.30): Andi Burkert
9.00-9.30
Mario Juric: Properties of the disk and halo of the Milky Way based on SDSS
9.30-10.00
Tom Brown: The Star Formation Histories of the M31 and M33 Spheroids
10.00-10.30
Jesus Falcon Barroso: Kinematics and age-metallicity diagnostics of bulges from SAURON
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
11.00-11.30
Marc Balcells: Galaxy Bulges: structure and colors out to z~1
11.30-12.00
Sadegh Khochfar: Merger history of galaxies in the context of disk+bulge formation
12.00-12.30
Shardha Jogee: Galaxy Merger History and Their Impact on Star Formation over 7 Gyr
12.30-2.00
Buffet Lunch + Poster Viewing
Afternoon Chair (2.00-5.30): Francoise Combes
2.00-2.30
T. J. Cox: Impact of minor mergers
2.30-3.00
Julio Navarro: Simulations of Disk Galaxies at z~2
3.00-3.30
Fabio Governato: Simulations of disk formation
3.30-4.00
Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
4.00-4.30
Karl Gebhardt: Black holes and bulges
4.30-4.45 (C)
Tim Weinzirl: Properties and origin of bulges in high mass spirals
4.45-5.00 (C)
Kyle Stewart: Merger Histories of LCDM Galaxies: Disk Survivability and the Deposition of Cold Gas via Mergers
5.00-5.15 (C)
Aday Robaina: Less than 15% of star formation in massive galaxies is triggered by major interactions
5.15-5.30 (C)
Carlos L-Sanjuan: Too few to be relevant: major merger statistics in 0 < z < 1
5.45-7.15
Science Happy Hour in Santa Rita Room (finger food/drinks near poster area)
7.20
Shuttles drop off participants at downtown hotels (Radisson and Extended Stay)
DAY 3 (THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13)
(Session 2 - continued) Disk/Bulge Assembly, Star Formation, and Merger History
Morning Chair (9.00-12.30): Avishai Dekel
9.00-9.30
David Schiminovich: GALEX Observations of Disks and Bulges
9.30-10.00
Genevieve Graves: Scaling relations for early-ype galaxies based on SDDS
10.00-10.30
Aaron Dutton: The Impact of Feedback on Disk Galaxy Scaling Relations
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
11.00-11.30
Francois Hammer: Kinematics of galaxies out to z~1 with FLAMES/GIRAFFE on VLT
11.30-12.00
Kristen L. Shapiro: SINFONI/VLT Observations of Galaxy Dynamics and Assembly at z~2
12.00-12.30
Bruce Elmegreen: Bulge formation by the coalescence of giant clumps in primordial disk galaxies
12.30-2.00
Buffet Lunch + Poster viewing
Afternoon Chair (2.00-5.30): Tom Brown
2.00-2.30
Emanuel Daddi: The molecular gas reservoirs of large disk galaxies at z=1.5
2.30-3.00
John Kormendy: Structure and evolution of elliptical and spheroidal galaxies
3.00-3.30
Christopher Conselice: Galaxy Structures and Mergers at z < 6
3.30-4.00
Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
4.00-4.30
Andrew Blain: Submillimeter galaxies
4.30-5.00
Naveen Reddy: Multiwavelength luminosity function(s) of z~2 galaxies
5.00-5.15 (C)
Shy Genel: The Millennium Simulation Compared to Observations of z~2 Galaxies
5.15-5.30 (C)
Rosalind Skelton: The effect of dry merging on galaxy evolution
5.40
Shuttles drop off participants at downtown hotels (Radisson and Extended Stay)
7.30
Bus picks up participants for conference dinner
8.00
Conference dinner at Fonda San Miguel
DAY 4 (FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14)
(Session 3) AGN and Star Formation Activity: Triggers and Feedback
Morning Chair (9.00-12.30): Bruce Elmegreen
9.00-9.30
Philip Hopkins: Mergers/quasars
9.30-10.00
Christy Tremonti: Empirical evidence for AGN feedback
10.00-10.30
Yuval Birnboim: Galaxy quenching by gravitational heating
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
11.00-11.30
Daniel Ceverino: High resolution simulations of SN feedback
11.30-12.00
Kai Noeske: Star formation history and stellar mass growth out to z~1 [10 MB]
12.00-12.30
Milos Milosavljevic: Nuclear star clusters in disk dominated galaxies
12.30-2.00
Buffet Lunch + Poster Viewing
Afternoon Chair (2.00-5.30): Isaac Shlosman
2.00-2.30
David Alexander: The Obscured growth of black holes in distant massive galaxies
2.30-3.00
Gregory Shields: Black hole-bulge relationship for QSOs at high redshift
3.00-3.15 (C)
Lei Hao: Bars Central Starbursts and AGN -- A Quantitative Reexamination
3.15-3.30 (C)
Jesper Rasmussen: The environmental impact of galaxy evolution: Tracing AGN and supernova feedback through cosmic time
3.30-4.00
Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
4.00-5.00
Julio Navarro: Workshop summary and discussion
5.15
Shuttles drop off participants at downtown hotels (Radisson and Extended Stay)
6.00
Bus picks up participants for free ride to the Salt Lick (Texas BBQ in the Hill Country)








1 May 2009